I really like this idea of rapidly extensible software, a browser is a nice sandbox for it! Models also seem to be much better at generating programs than "manually" executing a described task.

Lightweight browser extensions generated on demand, now there's a good use case for what they seem to be actually building.

Extending applications without having to launch a full agentic IDE. Macos is already very well equipped with GUI automation tools.

I laughed on the groundbreaking emphasis that you can move and resize the chat window because it's a Mac.

You're up to something, maybe they really have a broken pseudo-window with basic UI interaction hacked on top.

The “window” also doesn’t belong to an app! His menu bar continued to show Finder as the active app, not Siri.

Which means, if shipped like this, the Siri dialog will be a poor excuse for a window with:

- no Cmd+Tab, no Cmd+`

- no minimize??

- generally no presence in the Dock whatsoever

- no keyboard shortcuts beyond basic text editing ones

- no smart window resize

- …

So in other words, no Justin, that’s not a window. That’s a resizable Spotlight pop-up with an “X” button.

My guess is that it's deliberate - that Siri window hovers over all apps so that you remain in your current context, and can add files/images/texts from any app to the Siri conversation. There might also be a Siri app on the Mac that was not yet shown.

You're probably right, just add it to the collection of "not-quite-window floating thingies", accompanied by Quick Notes, Stickies, Special Character Picker, Color Picker, Font Picker…

Sigh, I wish we could stop re-inventing what was already solved 25 years ago.

I just want to stop having bullshit added to my context menus :(

I think they were just pointing out the difference between that and iOS there

My impression was that they're doubling down on that horrid Liquid glass.

Apparently there's a new fancy slider for making it more (but not completely) opaque? Did I miss an option for turning it off?

[accessibility settings -> display -> reduce transparency] is the main option afaik. while you're in there, try "reduce motion" too, it's pretty nice imo.

Keep in mind Apple would never admit mistakes on Liquid Glass. But: Looks to me they're fixing some of the worst aspects. I'm on the fence.

The iOS 7 flat redesign was a UX disaster. But they got back up to speed in subsequent releases.

There IS something to be said for design resets with follow-up refits to accomodate for actual human beings. Most companies just add crap on top of crap.

Not saying what everything Apple does is perfect, even as a user/fanboy since '86.

What I most enjoyed about todays's annoucement that they're doing a Snow Leopard performance/bug reset, because that was expected and needed. And they started out with it, so they know their WWDC audience.

So: Both a technical and UX debt effort, with some privacy-focused AI on top.

I can't complain.

Have you tried the Accessibility setting "Reduce Transparency"? Apple tends to hide too many things there.

that's been available from the beginning

It's funny how well this reflects the contrast in internet advice between Windows and Linux issues. All users deserve advice beginning with thorough sanity-checks and potential quick-fixes before having to dig deeper.

Searching about common Windows issues results in misleading blogspam. Suggested "solutions" resemble blindly applied folk remedies.

I'm no stranger to breaking my desktop Linux after an hour of misdirected troubleshooting and desperately messing with core libraries. I'm still glad I can quickly find my way to ArchWiki.

I'm scared that the influence of the largest companies exceeds governments of most nations.

Allegation of severe HN censorship. Further speculation on the political motives inside Y Combinator.

You are controlling your emotions with that technique, accepting and waiting emotions out is just not the only option.

Getting indoors from a cold rain is an obvious choice. I can't really decide to stop shivering, but changing my clothes and grabbing a hot chocolate helps. It still takes a while to warm back up, meanwhile I can actively choose not to open windows or go right back in the rain.

Yeah, this is what I meant. I used to let anger sit with me for hours and derail most of my day.

But now I'm better at deciding to let negative emotions go and feel happy or calm.

Making choices to change your situation will change your feelings so I do believe feelings are a choice to be made in most situations.

Yes, you can try to set up the right conditions for the emotions to subside which is non reaction but you can't choose when they subside or when they arise. I read OP as saying that you can directly choose which emotion you experience and when you experience it.

Probably flagged by containing suspicious words, such as "children", "stripped", "strings" and "kill"

I stopped worrying after I began protecting all keys with a passphrase.

Then the access of your git repos is protected by a single factor, the private key, since the private key is already in the wild.

Copying a private key on a removable storage or to another device than the device that generated it is never a good idea.

I protect mine with GPG for SSH authentication.

The only use of the passphrase is to give you time to rotate out the key after it's been compromised. It's not meant to be your main line of defense